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The Least Among Us: Big Impacts from Marginalized Voices

This is a time when the heroes that have always been among us are being recognized. Healthcare providers are at the top of the list of those who are giving selflessly on a daily basis. While doctors and nurses are regularly acknowledged, there are more heroes in healthcare. Custodial staff, among others, are vital to the efforts to keep the pandemic at bay. Read how to integrate a greater diversity of professional voices in your workplace to handle crises and create innovative ideas.

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Organizational Ecosystems - Integrating Platforms and Experiences for Innovative Alignment

Part of the value of platform and experience ecosystems is in their diversity, and ability to incorporate disparate elements and strengths into a unified whole. Leveraging these connections can help to fuel opportunity and innovation not just through creating new products, but creative ways of arranging those partnerships. For this to happen, companies first have to have the goal of building those partnerships externally, and creating alignment internally. Doing so will yield the most healthy ecosystem possible.

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Cailin's Experience Review of Emerson Hospital ER

About a month ago, Cailin cut her leg open while playing around a scrap metal pile. Why she was playing around a scrap metal pile is a different story. But the focus of this Experience Review is her patient experience at Emerson Hospital in Concord, MA. Hear how television channel in the waiting room can have a major impact, how a hospital smelled like a hospital, and small tokens of generosity can go a long way in making patients feel better.

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In Praise of the Mundane

An experience arms race is heating up. Companies are being faced with the challenge of trying to provide not only timely service and quality products, but also an “experience.” Staging experiences can be tricky business when considering that others are trying to stage their own experiences. In a frantic world of constant demands and changing terrain, sometimes you just want the mundane experience.

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